Returning to East Africa via India: On M. G. Vassanji’s \u3cem\u3eAnd Home Was Kariakoo\u3c/em\u3e

In his article “Returning to East Africa via India,” Shizen Ozawa examines how M. G. Vassanji further develops his diasporic aesthetics in his latest travel book/ memoir And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa (2014) from two perspectives. First, the essay explores some possible influences of his earlier travelogue A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2008). It seems partly because of his deepening relationship with his land of ancestral origin that in And, Vassanji emphasizes the cross-continental connections between East Africa and India more strongly than in his earlier works. Especially, he characterizes the very presence of Asian Africans as testimony to the enduring relationship between the two regions in spite of the post-colonial turbulence they had gone through. Second, my article examines how Vassanji at the same time affirms his “African” identity. Describing East Africa as a place to return to, he foregrounds his strong attachment to it. Moreover, he highlights the emergence of a racially inclusive society in which Asian Africans can feel a genuine sense of belonging. By doing so, Vassanji widens the corpus of an Asian African literature and at the same time brings a new phase in his own diasporic writing

On Naipaul\u27s Cultural Positions in The Middle Passage

In his article On Naipaul\u27s Cultural Positions in The Middle Passage Shizen Ozawa discusses V.S. Naipaul\u27s first travel writing. An account of his returning journey to the five Caribbean colonial societies, The Middle Passage constitutes a major turning point in Naipaul\u27s long literary career. Whereas his earlier novels depict his homeland of Trinidad ironically, although with a certain warmth and sympathy, from The Middle Passage on the world depicted both in his fictions and non-fictions turns bleaker. Correspondingly, his authorial persona changes from that of a West Indian writer to a controversial chronicler of chaotic postcolonial conditions. Ozawa analyses how Naipaul positions himself in relation to the Caribbean societies he describes and demonstrates that Naipaul characterizes himself strategically as a cultural insider in some passages and as an outsider in others. Naipaul\u27s frequent references to Victorian metropolitan travelers are also discussed in terms of the writer\u27s cultural affiliations

“With this past before you, all around you”: On the Transformation of Identities in M. G. Vassanji’s No New Land

[[abstract]]This essay analyses how M. G. Vassanji's second novel No New Land (1991), which thematises how Tanzanians of Indian origin emigrate to Canada in the nineteen-seventies and seek to build their new life there, explores the effects of diasporic double dislocation. It considers how the novel's thematisation of diasporic double dislocation illuminates the possibilities and limitations of cross-cultural dynamics. For the purpose, it first examines how the characters identify themselves with East Africa and how the drastic changes caused by decolonisation lead to their sense of diasporic dislocation. It then analyses how their new life in Canada makes them feel further alienated and how they seek to cope with this additional sense of dislocation. Next, the essay considers how Vassanji explores another dimension of diasporic dislocation by making some characters seek to re-define their cultural and communal identity. It concludes by examining the ambivalence of the novel's conclusion in light of Vassanji's own oscillation concerning his cultural position as a postcolonial writer. The novel's ending in which communal unity eventually stifles individual freedom, the essay concludes, reflects the writer's increasing belief in the possibilities of cross-cultural transformation.[[notice]]補正完

Representing Empire: An Interpretation of ‘From Tideway to Tideway’

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A lesson of Being Observed: On Amitav Ghosh’s In An Antique Land

[[sponsorship]]Woodbrooke College, University of Birmingham[[notice]]缺頁數[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20040831~20040903[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Birmingham , United Kingdo

Looking for the Roots: On M. G. Vassanji’s A Place Within: Rediscovering India.

[[sponsorship]]Georgetown University[[notice]]缺頁數[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20120330~20120402[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Washington, D.C., US

Returning to East Africa via India: On M. G. Vassanji’s And Home Was Kariakoo

[[abstract]]In his article “Returning to East Africa via India,” Shizen Ozawa examines how M. G. Vassanji further develops his diasporic aesthetics in his latest travel book/ memoir And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa (2014) from two perspectives. First, the essay explores some possible influences of his earlier travelogue A Place Within: Rediscovering India (2008). It seems partly because of his deepening relationship with his land of ancestral origin that in And, Vassanji emphasizes the cross-continental connections between East Africa and India more strongly than in his earlier works. Especially, he characterizes the very presence of Asian Africans as testimony to the enduring relationship between the two regions in spite of the post-colonial turbulence they had gone through. Second, my article examines how Vassanji at the same time affirms his “African” identity. Describing East Africa as a place to return to, he foregrounds his strong attachment to it. Moreover, he highlights the emergence of a racially inclusive society in which Asian Africans can feel a genuine sense of belonging. By doing so, Vassanji widens the corpus of an Asian African literature and at the same time brings a new phase in his own diasporic writing.[[notice]]補正完

Not Feeling at Home at ‘Home:’ On Rudyard Kipling’s Works of the Early Eighteen-Nineties

[[sponsorship]]Université de Bretagne Occidentale[[notice]]缺頁數[[conferencetype]]國際[[conferencedate]]20000706~20000708[[iscallforpapers]]Y[[conferencelocation]]Brest, Franc

“This Was My Country—How Could It Not Be?”: On the Significance of Travel in The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

[[abstract]]In his essay “Algeria’s European Minority,” Frantz Fanon vividly describes a process of nation building. As the independence movement gradually erodes the structure of the colonial society that has been based upon the notion of absolute difference between colonizers and the colonized, European minorities in Algeria shed their old sense of who they are, identify themselves as Algerians, and get accepted as fellow citizens. “In the new society that is being built,” Fanon avers, “there are only Algerians. From the outset, therefore, every individual living in Algeria is an Algerian. In tomorrow’s independent Algeria it will be up to every Algerian to assume Algerian citizenship or to reject it in favor of another” (152). This essay is moving, because of Fanon’s firm belief that the project of nation-building can renew people’s sense of belonging and thereby create a new, more inclusive and egalitarian society. At the same time, the essay is all the more poignant because subsequent history has seen too many tragic cases in which decolonization only leads to violent ethnic conflicts. Read with hindsight, Fanon’s essay raises questions as to what has gone wrong.[[notice]]補正完

Connecting the Past and the Present: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land

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